What's the practical difference between a diff -ub attachment to an issue in an issue tracker and a pull request in a web frontend to Git, other than that the latter has automatic checking for whether it merges cleanly?

Laziness, every additional step discourages contribution.

That said, scons is also a barrier, it's a terrible build system that almost nobody uses, but perhaps I'm in the minority with this opinion.

What's the practical difference between a diff -ub attachment to an issue in an issue tracker and a pull request in a web frontend to Git, other than that the latter has automatic checking for whether it merges cleanly?

Laziness, every additional step discourages contribution.

Everything's a step, including the choice of repository host. For example, FCEUX not following the masses from SourceForge to GitHub introduces a step because potential contributors are more likely to already have only a GitHub account and thus have to register for SourceForge. Or a different project using GitLab or Savannah when a particular contributor uses GitHub or Bitbucket or SourceForge also introduces a step. But some more purist projects consider it an essential one because GitHub and SourceForge don't work unless a user whitelists the site's proprietary JavaScript.

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